Washing-machine



No. 6I2,|l0. Patented Oct. Il, |898. E. H. ISHAM.

WASHINGYMACHINE.

rApplication led Nov. 18. 1897.,

(No Model.)

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EMMA II. ISIIAM, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming 'part of Letters Patent No. 612,110, dated october 1 I, 139s.

Application filed November 18, 1897. Serial No. 658,992. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMA H. IsHAM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The several features of my invention and the various advantages resulting from their use, conjointly or otherwise, will be apparent,

from the following description and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this application, and in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure l is an exterior view in perspective of a washing-machine constructed in accordance with the principal features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the tank (cylinder) and bottom of this machine, the dasher and its accompaniments and its rod and handle, as well as the stopples in the barrel, being shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is a top view of the dasher and its accompaniments, the upper part of the central rod and its handle being cut away to better enable the dasher to be seen. Fig. e is a View of the under side of the dasher and its accompaniments. Fig. 5 represents a Vertical section of the dasher and its accompaniments, taken in the plane of the dotted line 5 5 of Fig. 3, the bars and guide-rods with their heads and their springs being left in eleva` tion. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail of aguiderod, spring, cylinder, and Vof the adjacent portion of a holding-bar, the cylinder being shown in vertical central section. Fig. 7 is an edge elevation of the dasher and adjacent portion of the dasher-rod and accompaniments, the latter illustrating an additional feature of my invention. Fig. S represents a view taken partly in section and partly in elevation similarly to that of Fig. 5, the section being taken in the plane of the dotted line S S of Fig. 7. Y

A indicates the tank, of cylindrical form, having the side-encircling wall B and bottom C and top or cover D. The upper surface of the bottom C is provided with corrugations C2, and these preferably run across the bottom in parallel lines. These corrugations may be formed inl the surface of the bottom itself;

but Where the latter is of wood they are usually formed in a sheet C3 of metal, zinc or a zinc-coated metal being the kinds preferred, and this corrugated sheet is duly fixed to the bottom. In plan view this sheet corresponds in shape to that of the bottom, which it covers.

E indicates a dasher having a dasher-rod F concentrically connected thereto and preferably in a'rigid manner. This dasher-rod extends up through the center of the cover and is preferably provided with a cross-handle F2 the better to enable the rod F and its dasher E to be reciprocated. The opening D2 of the cover through which the dasher-rod passes is 'suinciently large to admit of the easy reciprocation of this rod through it. The cover D is suitably fixed to the cylinder B, so as to be incapable of lateral displacement While in working position. One mode of thus fixing it consists in providing it with an extension D3, which fits closely within the cylinder B, and with a iiange D4, extending down outside of the cylinder B and close thereto. Either of these would alone be sufficient to prevent lateral displacement of the cover relativegto the cylinder B. If either were to be dispensed with, the extension D3 would be retained; but the flange D4 performs an important and additional function in the machine-to wit, it helps to make the connection between the cover and cylinder liquid-tight to the extent that water and soapsuds thrown or brought up by the dasher are the better prevented from escaping past the cover and thence running down the outside of the tank. A further construction I employ in furtherance of this last-named end consists in making the upper edges of the cylinder incline inward. This bevel B2 operates to cause all the liquid which comes up to the cover, at the edge thereof, past the extension D3 to quickly run back into the IOO are as follows: The bar is provided with guide-rods H2, which pass up into passages H3 in the dasher. These openings have cylindrical walls H4, and these walls, if the dasher is not very thick, will extend up above the upper surface of the dasher, as shown. The better to allow the rods to each receive a spring H5, coiled around them, these rods are of a much smaller diameter than the diameter of the opening, and the only part allowed to remain large is an enlargement or disk HG at the upper end of each rod. This closely fits within the cylinder and the rod plays closely through the opening H7 below. Thus the rod H2 is always truly guided. The spring H5 rests upon a stop, as the bottom of the cylinder H8, and its upper end is beneath the disk H6. Thus constructed, when the bar H is drawn down (away) from the dasher E (see Figs. 5, 6, and 8) the guide-rods H2 are likewise drawn down and the springs H5 are compressed. Vhen the pull upon the bars H has ceased, the springs H5 will retract the bars to their first position. (See Figs. 2 and 7.) Where it is not desired to manipulate the bars H by directly handling them, I provide a device for otherwise depressing themto Wit, a central rod H9 is fixed to the bar H and passes up through the dasher E and eX- tends above the latter. The upper end of this rod H9 is provided with a button or thumbpush H10. By pressing down on this push II10 the bar H is depressed, as shown in Fig. 8. The corrugations E2, with which the dasher is provided, may be formed in the bottom of the dasher itself; but the latter, for the sake of lightness, is preferably formed on a metal sheet, and this preferably forms part of aA metal box J in which the dasher is inclosed. This metal box affords a convenient structure to which the cylinders I-I4 can be attached. The box is connected to the dasher by means of screws. Such screws J2 J2 connect the metal top to the dasher. A ferrule J 3 from the box embraces the dash-rod and is suitably secured thereto, as by screws J2. The dasher has vertical openings E3 through it, and these permit the liquid, except so far as prevented by the clothes, to pass through the dasher, and thus allow it to move up and down the more readily and the better to agitate and mix the suds.

The lid can be fastened down, as by a hook K engaging a staple K2, fixed in the outside of the cylinder For the ready admission of water or soapsuds after the cover D has been secured in place on the tank an opening D5 is presentand is provided with a stopple DG. The latter may be secured by a chain D7 to the cover, as shown. The lining DSof the opening D5 is preferably metal.

For the purpose of enabling the washing liquid to be readily removed after the operation of washing the articles to be cleansed has been concluded an opening B3 in the lower end of the tank, and preferably lined with metal BG, is closed by a stopple B4. This be washed between the bar and the dasher i and then releasing hold of the bar. The latter, through the agency of the springs H5, will draw the bar toward the dasher and elastically hold the articles to be washed against the dasher and secure them from displacement. The dasher,thus provided at its under side with the articles to be washed, is now replaced in the tank.

The tank is to be supplied with sufiicient water and soap or bluing or whatever, if anything, is to be added to the water to be used in the operation of washing either before the dasher is replaced in the tank or after it has been reinserted in the tank. The cover having been put in place the operation of washing is begun, and consists in reciprocating the dasher at times, and for the most part in rotating the dasher, so that the articles to be washed will be rubbed between the dasher and the bottom of the tank. The operation of thus washing the articles at the dasher is very soon completed, whereupon the articles thus washed are removed. Should it now be desired to wash another lot of articles, the aforedescribed operation is repeated. When the wash is completed, the liquid in the tank is drawn off through opening B3 in the tank.

My invention is of great value in small apartments or fiats` and suites of rooms. It enables the lady of the house to do the washing, especially of the smaller articles of clothing or laces, dre., without soiling the apartment or her own clothing or hands.

Vhat I claim as new and of myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a washing-machine, a dasher having reciprocatory bars, extending across the working face of the disk of the dasher, and springs fixedly attached thereto, substantially as and for the purposes specied.

2. In a washing-machine, a dasher having bars located at its bottom, and extending across the working face of the latter, and springs xedly attached to the bars and adapted to retract the latter, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a washing-machine, a dasher having separable bottom bars, provided with rods having disks, and cylindrical walls in the dasher receiving the disks and rods and carrying a stop H8, and springs within the cylindrical walls compressed between the disks and a stop below, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. In a washingmachine, a dasher having separable bottom bars extending across the dasher, and devices for elastically pressing the bars to the bottom, and vertical rods sep- IIO 6. In a Washing-machine, a dasher, consisting of a metallic inclosure corrugated at bottom, and embracing a Wooden disk, and having at top a ferrule receiving the dasher-rod, in combination with cylinders Hiheld in the dasher, and bars H, and rods for advancing the bars and respectively Working in said cylinders and springs for retracting the rods,substantially as and for the purposes specified.

. EMMA I-I. ISHAM. Attest:

WM. H. PUGH, K. SMITH. 

